Since the time of the ancient Greeks and Hebrews, people have searched for answers to these questions – and others – about the afterlife. Here, historian Philip Almond investigates.
In his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the Venerable Bede tells us of King Edwin of Northumbria, in the year AD 627, contemplating acceptance of the Christian faith and discussing it with his friends and counsellors Read More...

The Tree of Life: The source of eternal Life and Blessing
We all know the story of Adam and Eve, but we do not know much about The Tree of Life mentioned in Bible “Genesis 3:22”: Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of The Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever” Read More...

The story of Alexander “Sawney” Bean might be real or a greatly exaggerated legend. However, past stories such as this one, true or not, are more interesting, they happened. Sawney was a man from Scotland, famous for killing and eating more than 1,000 people Read More...

Mermaids, unicorns, and fairies have been romanticized through the ages, but what about the Pennsylvanian Squonk? Here is a motley assortment of mythical beasts and beings found in folklore from around the world. From soul-sucking cats to child-thieving shape-shifters, these are the oddballs found in the magical bestiary that haven’t gotten much love. Read More...

Italian researchers have discovered what might be the oldest nativity scene ever found that depicts a star in the east, a newborn between parents and two animals.The scene, painted in reddish-brown ochre, was found on the ceiling of a small cavity in the Egyptian Sahara desert Read More...

There were few established military institutions in Scandinavia at the start of the Viking Age, circa 800, but a number of such organisations gradually developed as society came increasingly under the rule of a single king. The foremost institution was the retinue, a brotherhood of warriors serving a common master Read More...

The Salem witchcraft trials that took place in 1692
While nowhere near as famous as the Salem witchcraft trials that took place in 1692, the great Connecticut witchcraft panic, which lasted intermittently from 1647 until 1697, set a precedent in American history. Of course, these trials presaged the later series of events in Salem. Read More...

Top 10 Mysterious Artifacts
Simply put, out-of-place artifacts are objects of historical and archaeological significance discovered out of context, seemingly defying explanation of how they came to be, and potentially challenging conventional history. Read More...

People in the Middle Ages led certainly lives quite different from ours. But their thinking was so "different" than ours? In many ways, there are undeniable similarities: they had families, society was divided into states (or classes), living the same ambitions for their children as new and evolving into a world of emotions largely similar to ours. Read More...

In 1994, two strange manuscripts, with only minor variations, turned up in the British Library and the Bodleian Library. The Book of Soyga, also known as Aldaraia, is a text once thought lost. Read More...

A mysterious tomb was discovered in Greece. '' We do not know who is buried inside ''
An ancient tomb found in northern Greece is probably a monument to Hephaestion Alexander's companion, archaeologists announced, cited by AFP."Suppose it's a funerary shrine dedicated to Hephaestion," said the press Katerina Peristeri. Read More...

The Divine Power That Is in the Believer
In Matthew 13:11, Jesus told the disciples, "To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to [the crowd] it has not been granted." As followers of Christ, we, too, have the privilege to know all of the truths God has chosen to reveal in Scripture. Do you ever have the sense that they have managed to solve the mystery of how to rejoice in suffering, conquer sin, forgive the unforgivable, or live a life of love in ways you haven't yet discovered? Read More...

Babylonian Mythology Gods
Most records of Babylonian myths date from 700 B.C., when they were transcribed in cuneiform on clay tablets and stored in the library of the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. However, the two major Babylonian epics probably originated around 2000 B.C Read More...

The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends
Tales of monsters, Gods, spells and love affairs: Celtic myths reflected the social thinking and traditions of pre-Roman Celts of Britain, Ireland and Europe. Spread by travelling poets and storytellers who plied their trade from village to village, the myths came into being partly to explain Read More...

Frightful mysteries of mummies were untiedMummification was practiced in Egypt for more than 3,000 years, and the practice was changed in different times and places. In the past, we have looked at one, two mummies and we get a conclusion, but now we have much more technology nondestructive and a wealth of medical information . Read More...

The legends have inspired the imagination of people for thousands of years. Although many of them are simple stories passed down from generation to generation, some might be real story of geological events, believed Patrick Nunn of the University of the Sunshine Coast of Australia. Read More...

It is said that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. Meanwhile, any historian will tell you that the past, often, is something that you did not want to relive it. Yet history, as we know it today abounds with myths and false personalities who have almost nothing in common with records or deeds attributed to them Read More...

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